Challenging the Fantasy Bond: A Search for Personal Identity and Freedom

In this thought-provoking book, clinical psychologist and theorist Robert Firestone explains how the fantasy bond, an illusion of connection, develops early in childhood to cope with the pain and frustration resulting from parental misattunement, neglect, or mistreatment. Copyright: 2023

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New York state psychologists: This program is not currently in compliance with the unique requirements imposed by the New York State Board of Education for New York licensed psychologists CE.

• Recite the underlying theory and components of the fantasy bond.
• Explain the dimensions of the fantasy bond.
• Discuss the applications and behavioral manifestations of the fantasy bond on the individual and the treatment approaches.
• Apply the concept of the fantasy bond to death anxiety, society, and racial and ethnic prejudice and polarization.